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Show T110S8 Bets. In Sunday's issue of the Heuald we were authorized in flaying- A friend of ours offers to wager, lor the benefit of the Ladies' Heading Room of this city, the following sums: $50 that George Q, Cannon will retain re-tain his seat in Congress; $50 that George K. Maxwell will never take a seat m Congress frofii Llap; fpO t-ht the "Poland Bill will notbecomo a lawof Congress; $5.0; that no legislation will be enacted at the present session qf Congress alleetmg the administration administra-tion of justice in tab Territory; these wagers all to be taleu separately by any one member of the "ring." On Monday an ex-Justice of the Peace, and quondam dispenaor of bibulous concoctions, called at this ofjico and stated that if the money jvouU be glyen to pome female concern con-cern that was abouf being Started here, be would take tico pf tho bet without conditions, and another with certain provisos; the fourth he would not take. Ho was informed that within hall an hour wo would ascertain if the challenger would accept ac-cept hw lirovf-Vw. We aaw pur friend within the time, but as the bluffing "riiigite" failed to return, com-liuM ho bid "weakened." And thus things remained till yua-teidnv yua-teidnv mornini', when it was stattd in the subsidized sheet that our con-sumptive-lnoking friend from Paris, Put Lannan, was he who had offered to take the bets llLltl tlllU be'profi'cred to take tlw. of them, doing so to prove the bets were offered on a "blull." Either Pat's memory : shorter short-er than his neck, or he or the organ grinders misrepresent things As the grinders make no pretensions to telling the truth, and Pat, claims to be a gentleman, we must aitributo the false statements to the former. The matter or the men arc scarcely wortn tne tpace we nae iun mi, but in view of the few readers of that sheet admitting there are those who have no more to do than look over its columns might think its editors had for ouce departed from their principles princi-ples acd told the truth, we deem this explanation necessary. As far as the bets arc concerned, the propoaitionu first made through these columns stand good, just as they were stated, and the money will bo forthcoming whenever anyone is prepare I to take tho beta. |